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Visualizing the dismal job market college graduates are now entering, where hiring has cratered practically to 2009 levels. / The Washington Post [$]
Princeton’s 133-year-old Honor Code depends on trust between faculty and students—a relationship now being eroded by AI. / The Atlantic [$]
Some US schools are bringing back cursive thanks to students’ curiosity and—in at least one case—a desire to have a better signature. / The New York Times [$]
Teen interest helped resuscitate malls, and gave them a much-needed third place; now some malls are banning under-18s unaccompanied by adults. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
Amazon employees are using AI for unnecessary tasks to inflate their token usage and score high on internal leaderboards. / Tom’s Hardware
Humanoid robots are the next tech hype cycle—and therefore, a thing most people don’t necessarily care about. “We don’t require too many backflips in the shipyard.” / Bloomberg [$]
See also: “People who don’t like people are making all of our decisions”—and work is becoming about who’s using AI versus who’s being managed by it. / The Atlantic [$], The Guardian
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According to a new study, seven million children in the US live in a home with a loaded and unlocked firearm. / NPR
Journalists can’t be happy that Venmo will finally allow new users to choose whether their transactions should be publicly viewable. / Gizmodo
“To watch [Jimmy] Fallon is to stare at the face of a culture that has chosen the comfort of a rictus grin over the heavy, necessary terror of the truth.” / Current Affairs
See also: Kim Gordon’s solo career is the antidote we need to our hypercapitalist moment. / Jacobin
“My mother could make me anything I wanted to be. As a child she transformed me into a swan, a mermaid, a white Persian cat dressed like an elegant Victorian lady.” Growing up with a costume designer. / Literary Hub
Amazing soundtracks are forgotten when they’re attached to terrible movies—one music label is plundering studios’ and composers’ archives to save these lost masterpieces. / The New York Times [$]
“Taste is only partially biological, and doesn’t really live in the tongue. It’s emotional. It’s psychological.” Pickiness tastes like trauma. / Oakland Review of Books
“For every order over one hundred dollars, we will pass the sweet relief of silence on to you.” You will buy from Quince, and you will fucking like it. / McSweeney’s